‘Health systems should be prepared’: doctors brace for tsunami of long Covid

Because the debilitating post-viral situation impacts hundreds of thousands around the globe, medical specialists are scrambling to nail down what causes it – and find out how to deal with it

• Sufferers of chronic pain have long been told it’s all in their head. We now know that’s wrong

When his throat first began hurting, John Brown didn’t assume a lot of it.

It was March 2020 and the 48-year-old was onboard the Voyager of the Seas, a cruise travelling via the Pacific Islands.